Finance Contracts in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 6,147 7,250 10,761
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 23.15% 19.48% 22.34%
As % of the General category 36.24% 33.99% 37.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,140 5,054 7,844
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £738
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 229 105
10th Percentile £16.41 £13.24 £15.72
25th Percentile £20.93 £15.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £28.00 £30.76
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -8.96% -12.13%
75th Percentile £65.00 £38.12 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £56.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £30.76
% change year-on-year +16.07% -8.96% -17.83%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 16,961 21,330 28,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.87% 57.31% 59.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,881 13,604 19,999
10th Percentile £281 £300 £315
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -3.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 852 1,767 970
10th Percentile £13.35 £13.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.40 £15.92 £17.25
Median hourly rate £27.25 £33.00 £30.52
Median % change year-on-year -17.44% +8.13% +31.38%
75th Percentile £51.20 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.22 £31.89 £30.54
% change year-on-year -14.65% +4.40% +27.25%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in England

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in England.

Daily rate trend for Finance in England

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in England.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,069 £600 -2.04% 8,150
North of England -1 697 £465 -7.00% 1,605
South East -1 433 £525 +5.00% 1,798
Midlands -3 362 £450 -14.29% 911
North West -3 360 £450 -10.00% 987
Yorkshire 0 306 £488 -2.50% 490
South West +6 301 £550 +0.46% 669
West Midlands -3 220 £500 -9.09% 562
East Midlands +1 135 £425 -16.09% 331
East of England -6 110 £575 +16.46% 481
North East +8 31 £440 -14.15% 138
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 182 (2.96%) Confluence
2 153 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 121 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 102 (1.66%) Apache
5 83 (1.35%) Apache Spark
6 64 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.49%) SAS
8 20 (0.33%) CMS
9 18 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
10 16 (0.26%) JBoss
10 16 (0.26%) WebLogic
10 16 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 12 (0.20%) CICS
11 12 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 11 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 7 (0.11%) MQSeries
14 5 (0.081%) IBM Notes
14 5 (0.081%) IIS
14 5 (0.081%) nginx
14 5 (0.081%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 343 (5.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 191 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 147 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 105 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
5 62 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 28 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 22 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
8 18 (0.29%) Sketch
9 13 (0.21%) Chatbot
10 12 (0.20%) Trello
11 10 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 8 (0.13%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 7 (0.11%) InVision
13 7 (0.11%) Photoshop
14 5 (0.081%) Acrobat
15 4 (0.065%) UserZoom
16 3 (0.049%) OmniGraffle
16 3 (0.049%) UXPin
17 1 (0.016%) EViews
Business Applications
1 212 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 73 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
3 61 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
4 58 (0.94%) Aladdin
5 55 (0.89%) Oracle Assets
6 52 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
7 45 (0.73%) Oracle EBS R12
7 45 (0.73%) SAP FI
8 44 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
9 40 (0.65%) SAP CO
10 38 (0.62%) Endur
11 37 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
12 36 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
13 34 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
14 29 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
15 26 (0.42%) NetSuite
15 26 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
16 24 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
17 22 (0.36%) Oracle E-Business Tax
17 22 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 883 (14.36%) Azure
2 756 (12.30%) AWS
3 318 (5.17%) Power Platform
4 291 (4.73%) GCP
5 207 (3.37%) SaaS
6 201 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
7 164 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
8 128 (2.08%) Snowflake
9 125 (2.03%) dbt
10 113 (1.84%) GitHub
11 105 (1.71%) Entra ID
12 100 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
13 96 (1.56%) OCI
14 72 (1.17%) Serverless
15 58 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
16 55 (0.89%) OpenShift
17 52 (0.85%) PaaS
18 51 (0.83%) Amazon S3
19 50 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
20 48 (0.78%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 165 (2.68%) Firewall
2 78 (1.27%) DNS
3 70 (1.14%) Network Security
4 63 (1.02%) VPN
5 60 (0.98%) WAN
6 45 (0.73%) DHCP
7 43 (0.70%) TCP/IP
8 40 (0.65%) LAN
9 38 (0.62%) BGP
10 31 (0.50%) OSPF
11 29 (0.47%) HTTP
11 29 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (0.41%) WebEx
13 23 (0.37%) Multicast
14 20 (0.33%) VLAN
15 19 (0.31%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.29%) SAN
17 17 (0.28%) SSL
18 16 (0.26%) Wireless
19 15 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (4.34%) Power BI
2 219 (3.56%) SQL Server
3 182 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
4 145 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
5 131 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 125 (2.03%) Data Lake
7 108 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
8 107 (1.74%) Tableau
9 104 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
10 103 (1.68%) Dremio
11 99 (1.61%) Apache Arrow
12 94 (1.53%) Big Data
12 94 (1.53%) Oracle Database
13 93 (1.51%) Oracle Reports
14 82 (1.33%) NoSQL
15 66 (1.07%) MongoDB
16 51 (0.83%) Apache Ignite
17 50 (0.81%) Hadoop
18 45 (0.73%) DB2
19 35 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 350 (5.69%) JIRA
2 206 (3.35%) Git
3 183 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 69 (1.12%) GitLab
5 63 (1.02%) JUnit
6 46 (0.75%) Gradle
7 33 (0.54%) Bitbucket
7 33 (0.54%) Maven
7 33 (0.54%) Postman
8 32 (0.52%) TeamCity
9 31 (0.50%) Artifactory
9 31 (0.50%) Selenium
10 30 (0.49%) Mockito
11 26 (0.42%) Cucumber
12 25 (0.41%) SonarQube
13 24 (0.39%) Visual Studio
14 23 (0.37%) Liquibase
15 22 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
15 22 (0.36%) Subversion
16 20 (0.33%) JMeter
General
1 1,996 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 1,335 (21.72%) Banking
3 948 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 492 (8.00%) Front Office
5 347 (5.65%) Public Sector
6 346 (5.63%) Investment Banking
7 306 (4.98%) Marketing
8 255 (4.15%) Manufacturing
9 252 (4.10%) Financial Institution
10 243 (3.95%) Legal
11 229 (3.73%) Telecoms
12 190 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
13 178 (2.90%) Retail
14 152 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
15 150 (2.44%) Electronics
16 133 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 132 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
18 111 (1.81%) Back Office
19 97 (1.58%) Law
20 93 (1.51%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 1,026 (16.69%) Analyst
2 944 (15.36%) Developer
3 607 (9.87%) Senior
4 532 (8.65%) Business Analyst
5 493 (8.02%) Architect
5 493 (8.02%) Project Manager
6 429 (6.98%) Lead
7 370 (6.02%) Consultant
8 240 (3.90%) Software Engineer
9 168 (2.73%) Data Analyst
10 162 (2.64%) Java Developer
11 157 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
12 152 (2.47%) AWS Engineer
13 151 (2.46%) Senior Developer
14 134 (2.18%) Data Engineer
14 134 (2.18%) Financial Analyst
15 129 (2.10%) Python Developer
16 127 (2.07%) Programme Manager
17 125 (2.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 122 (1.98%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (4.38%) React
2 226 (3.68%) .NET
3 174 (2.83%) Kafka
4 160 (2.60%) AngularJS
5 152 (2.47%) REST
6 132 (2.15%) Node.js
7 121 (1.97%) Pandas
8 115 (1.87%) NumPy
9 114 (1.85%) Spring
10 101 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
11 93 (1.51%) Redux
12 92 (1.50%) SciPy
12 92 (1.50%) Web Services
13 91 (1.48%) RESTful
14 86 (1.40%) Middleware
15 84 (1.37%) CSS
16 82 (1.33%) Vue
17 81 (1.32%) Spring Boot
18 75 (1.22%) HTML
19 70 (1.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 320 (5.21%) Fixed Income
2 299 (4.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 263 (4.28%) Derivative
4 239 (3.89%) Product Ownership
5 213 (3.47%) Hedge funds
6 212 (3.45%) Equities
7 171 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 160 (2.60%) Management Information System
9 137 (2.23%) Data Centre
10 109 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
11 99 (1.61%) Data Structures
12 95 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
13 94 (1.53%) Cloud Native
14 78 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
15 76 (1.24%) Algorithms
16 74 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
16 74 (1.20%) Market Risk
17 63 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
18 60 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
19 56 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 410 (6.67%) Windows
2 318 (5.17%) Linux
3 118 (1.92%) Unix
4 70 (1.14%) Windows 10
5 65 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 49 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 38 (0.62%) Android
7 38 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.18%) Solaris
8 11 (0.18%) zOS
9 10 (0.16%) AIX
9 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.15%) VMS
11 8 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.065%) CentOS
12 4 (0.065%) HPUX
12 4 (0.065%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,580 (25.70%) Agile
2 1,100 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
3 903 (14.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 750 (12.20%) Project Management
5 743 (12.09%) Migration
6 601 (9.78%) Analytics
7 574 (9.34%) DevOps
8 533 (8.67%) Risk Management
9 522 (8.49%) Business Intelligence
10 503 (8.18%) CI/CD
11 433 (7.04%) Change Management
12 420 (6.83%) Software Engineering
13 391 (6.36%) Project Delivery
14 386 (6.28%) Decision-Making
15 381 (6.20%) Asset Management
16 373 (6.07%) Roadmaps
17 358 (5.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 343 (5.58%) Continuous Improvement
19 330 (5.37%) ERP
20 324 (5.27%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 983 (15.99%) SQL
2 966 (15.71%) Python
3 578 (9.40%) Java
4 345 (5.61%) JavaScript
5 308 (5.01%) C#
6 265 (4.31%) TypeScript
7 192 (3.12%) PowerShell
8 141 (2.29%) PL/SQL
9 133 (2.16%) C++
10 77 (1.25%) Bash
11 70 (1.14%) Shell Script
12 54 (0.88%) VBA
13 52 (0.85%) Go
14 41 (0.67%) R
14 41 (0.67%) VB
15 40 (0.65%) Scala
16 28 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 27 (0.44%) C
18 25 (0.41%) Rust
18 25 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 636 (10.35%) Degree
2 414 (6.73%) Security Cleared
3 328 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 134 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 128 (2.08%) PMI Certification
6 127 (2.07%) PMP
7 102 (1.66%) Master's Degree
8 72 (1.17%) ACCA
9 69 (1.12%) DV Cleared
10 62 (1.01%) CISSP
11 60 (0.98%) CIMA
12 53 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 48 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
14 42 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
15 41 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
16 32 (0.52%) CISM
17 30 (0.49%) CCNP
18 26 (0.42%) AWS Certification
19 25 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
20 24 (0.39%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (3.29%) QA
2 193 (3.14%) PMO
3 191 (3.11%) Data Quality
4 140 (2.28%) GDPR
5 88 (1.43%) NIST
6 82 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 82 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 81 (1.32%) SLA
8 77 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 68 (1.11%) MiFID
10 49 (0.80%) IFRS
11 43 (0.70%) PCI DSS
12 32 (0.52%) GRC
13 31 (0.50%) EMIR
14 26 (0.42%) Basel III
15 20 (0.33%) SEPA
16 17 (0.28%) IFRS 9
17 16 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.26%) COBIT
18 13 (0.21%) GAAP
System Software
1 216 (3.51%) Docker
2 192 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 56 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (0.29%) vSphere
7 16 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (0.098%) Firmware
10 6 (0.098%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 6 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.081%) RACF
11 5 (0.081%) XenApp
12 4 (0.065%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.065%) Hyper-V
12 4 (0.065%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.065%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.049%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 3 (0.049%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 250 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 206 (3.35%) Terraform
3 164 (2.67%) Ansible
4 69 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 61 (0.99%) SCCM
6 39 (0.63%) Puppet
7 34 (0.55%) Grafana
8 23 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 17 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
10 13 (0.21%) Control-M
10 13 (0.21%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.20%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 11 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (0.18%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
13 10 (0.16%) Kibana
13 10 (0.16%) QRadar
14 9 (0.15%) HP ALM
15 8 (0.13%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 851 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 611 (9.94%) Oracle
3 598 (9.73%) SAP
4 166 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 141 (2.29%) Google
6 118 (1.92%) Databricks
7 117 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 102 (1.66%) Cisco
9 100 (1.63%) Workday
10 87 (1.42%) VMware
11 78 (1.27%) IBM
12 66 (1.07%) Splunk
13 63 (1.02%) Citrix
14 60 (0.98%) Adobe
15 48 (0.78%) HP
16 47 (0.76%) Ariba
16 47 (0.76%) Red Hat
17 42 (0.68%) Dell
17 42 (0.68%) Murex
17 42 (0.68%) Sybase